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Notepad++ updater installed malware
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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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Did you read it? https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
Yes, I did.
8.8.9 is the fully hardened version, but the 8.8.7 update should have fixed the vulnerability since from what I can tell the publicly available self signed cert was being used for the exploit.